The message from Lyra arrived through the ground channels on the fourth day.

Marina felt it in the broadcast frequency before she read the specific content, the Bloodfang root note carrying the specific quality of something important rather than urgent. She pressed her palm to the eastern community floor during the morning tablet session and read it.

Lyra had gone back to Bloodfang for three days to complete the boundary monitoring handover. While she was there she had spoken to the Bloodfang wolves about Kael.

The pack wanted to hold a memorial.

Not the brief acknowledgment Silvain had made at the council gathering in the first weeks back. A proper...